All actions now break which makes it hard to debug remote repositories

[vickytnz]

The new github actions mean that when I copy the template the workflows all break. I though that this might be because I did a private repo without Github pages, but when I tried a repo which was public and had pages it still didn't work.

Examples of actions breaking here: https://github.com/vickytnz/xgov-design-history/actions

I don't really want this working on Github pages as i'd rather have it on a password protected heroku, but the breaking tests seem to mean I can work locally but not remotely.

Ideally there would be a way to turn off this workflow until it's set up on github pages (or not at all), and have it as a toggle.

[frankieroberto]

@vickytnz ah, thanks for reporting! I wonder if there's a way to have the GitHub actions on the repo but not included as part of the "template"... I'll investigate! Although the workflow is useful for people who do want to deploy to GitHub pages, so maybe it should be an option. Hmm.

In the meantime you can turn the action off by deleting .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

Why the build on your repo is failing is another puzzle...

[frankieroberto]

@vickytnz Ah, so it looks like there are 2 separate issues:

• the deploy.yml is failing because GitHub Pages isn't enabled - you have to do this within Settings first, and then the deploy script would work
• the pages build and deployment / build is I think not being triggered by any action included in the repo, but is instead the default one used if you have 'Classic' pages enabled?

I think if you were to change this setting from 'Deploy from a branch (GitHub Classic)' to 'GitHub Actions' then it might all work?

(and yes this is all needlessly fiddly... We'll have to try and improve the documentation on this to get people through these initial hurdles!)